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ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has said that Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammedi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammed should read the Constitution before issuing religious decrees against it.
Sufi Mohammed is challenging the Constitution. He has not read it and I suggest all those who are ignorant should read the document, Malik said.
Addressing the launching ceremony of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Police here on Tuesday for dealing with women and investigating crimes of violence against women, he said that the government would take strict action if TNSM violates peace agreement or fails to implement it.
Malik said that the Nizam-e-Adl was invoked in 1994, under which a sessions judge was named as Qazi. He added that no one should create ambiguity that any 'maulvi would hold the charge of a judge, rather a sessions judge in Peshawar would be called Qazi in Malakand.
He said that the SOPs would help in uplifting the image of the police and urged the women force to actively take part in the national progress otherwise there would be no solution to their miseries.
Malik said that Interior Ministry had received a proposal to raise Women Elite Force and introduction of police and social services through one-window operation and NADRA was rendering efficient services in this regard.
He said the government approached Friends of Pakistan not for begging, but to make them realize how war on terror was imposed on Pakistan and how jihadis entered Pakistan.
Almost 24,000 jihadis entered Pakistan while 10,000 of them married here in tribal areas and now they describe them as sons of the soil and also cause terror in the country, said Rehman Malik.
Earlier, Director General National Police Bureau Syed Irshad Hussain said SOPs would help improve image of police force and ensure protection of womens rights. He said only the amendments in laws would not help improve the situation, rather it needed financial resources as well.
He said the new SOPs introduce multiple checks on police services and added that it would also introduce departmental and judicial inquiries against those showing negligence to provide relief to women victims.
Principal Advisor, German Technical Cooperation Yasmeen Hamdan said new SOPs would help ensure positive response to women victims as usually the victims are sent home, describing their problem as domestic dispute. The SOPs would also put positive impacts on the investigation methods of police and consequently the perpetrators of crime would be brought to justice and women rights would be protected.
National Public Safety Commission and National Police Bureau, in collaboration with German Technical Cooperation have formulated the SOPs that were launched today.